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Thinking Like the CEO of Thinking Like the CEO of Your Own Career: Your Own Career:
Goal-Setting, Advancing and Goal-Setting, Advancing and Avoiding Career DerailersAvoiding Career Derailers
6/27/076/27/07
Janet BickelCareer and Leadership Development Coach Faculty Career and Diversity Consultant
Critical Career Knowledge Critical Career Knowledge AreasAreas
• know what (scientific/clinical expertise)
• know why you are doing what you’re doing (goals, values)
• know whom (manage key relationships, build community)
• know how (negotiation skills, political savvy)
• know when (adaptable, take risks)
Your Aspirations?
Reflecting on what fuels you
•What do I want to devote myself to? Accomplish? Become?
•What brings me to life? What am I most enthusiastic about?
•What do I value most highly?
•When does life feel the most meaningful?
What does “Success”
mean to you?
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•Promotion: Rigidly defined
•Advancement: Undefined
•Success: Self-defined spending time on what's most important to you
Professional Development WorksheetProfessional Development WorksheetFor each of your areas of effort (eg teaching, research, clinical) specify:
• Last year’s goals and accomplishments
• This year’s goals
• What resources, collaborators, new skills and time do you need?
• What competing commitments interfere? How can you address?
•What is your learning agenda?
Buzz Groups: Buzz Groups: please find a please find a partner and discuss these partner and discuss these
questionsquestions
• What does your calendar say about your goals?
• How can you improve your focus on what’s most important to you—and what’s rewarded by your organization?
Critical Career Knowledge Critical Career Knowledge AreasAreas
• know what (scientific/clinical expertise)
• know why you are doing what you’re doing (goals, values)
• know whom (manage key relationships, build community)
• know how (negotiation skills, political savvy)
• know when (adaptable, take risks)
*Learn about the systems you work in
*Recognize when you’re relying on a “story” or snap judgments--ask more questions
*Learn how value is created and translate that knowledge into action
*Anticipate conflicts and make constructive use of them
*Get comfortable letting others know about your work and what you care about
*Do not internalize negative politics!
Becoming Politically Savvy
Managing “Up”Managing “Up”
How do you relate to How do you relate to
authority figures? authority figures? •• resent?resent?
•• need to please?need to please?
•• over-depend?over-depend?
•• defer to?defer to?
•• avoid?avoid?
•• or do you effectively or do you effectively partner with?partner with?
Managing “Up” meansManaging “Up” means developing a pattern of developing a pattern of
interaction with your boss that interaction with your boss that produces the best results.produces the best results.
Seek to understand her:Seek to understand her: ““Big picture” ie, goals, Big picture” ie, goals,
priorities, pressurespriorities, pressures Preferences re communicationsPreferences re communications
NB: You don’t need to like your NB: You don’t need to like your bossboss
Managing “Up” includesManaging “Up” includes*building trust
*communicating effectively
*addressing boss’s priorities
*anticipating other points of view
*agreeing to disagree when necessary
*standing up to a bully
Political skillsPolitical skills Harder for women and minorities to acquire:
*less likely to be mentored
*often miss out on “hallway” conversations and golf games
*norms of recognition and achievement sustain men’s drive but not women’s
He’s assertive
He’s authoritative
He’s good at details
He’s open
He follows through
He’s decisive
He’s confident
They’re networking
They’re debating
She’s pushy
She’s bossy
She’s picky
She’s unsure
She doesn’t know when to quit
She’s vindictive
She’s conceited
They’re chitchatting
They’re catfighting
Don’t assume your work speaks for itselfDon’t assume your work speaks for itself• Timidity is like waiting to be asked
on a date
• Keep your boss updated
• Recognition attracts new opportunities
• Articulate how your productivity and success benefit your institution and profession
Negotiation is… Negotiation is… a communication process aimed at
getting what you want at the least cost while also strengthening the relationship.
Negotiation skills include:*thorough preparation*analytic and intuitive listening*identifying common goals
and mutual gains*persuasion*building relationships
Women also tend to:Women also tend to: underestimate their worthunderestimate their worth
too rule-orientedtoo rule-oriented
take disagreements personallytake disagreements personally
fold too readilyfold too readily
when nervous, talk too much or shut downwhen nervous, talk too much or shut down
give in to bullies and “ambushes”give in to bullies and “ambushes”
• Women do not initiate negotiations as frequently as men--or fare as well
• Negotiators take harder line against women, making worse first offersand pressuring women to concede more
• Women often out of the loop when important issues decided
• “Likeability problem”: assertive women are less well-liked
Source: Babcock, Linda. Women don’t ask: negotiation and the gender divide. Princeton U Press, 2003.
ResilientResilient people: people: Possess the capacity to be robust Possess the capacity to be robust
under conditions of enormous under conditions of enormous stress and changestress and change
Have a big advantage because: Have a big advantage because: ‘‘success’ never been so fragilesuccess’ never been so fragile momentum not the force it was momentum not the force it was getting ‘better’ not enough if also getting ‘better’ not enough if also
need to get ‘different’ need to get ‘different’ must anticipate and adjust to deep must anticipate and adjust to deep
new trends new trends
ResilienceResilience depends on: depends on: cognition: free of denial, arrogance, cognition: free of denial, arrogance,
nostalgia nostalgia
strategies: experimenting with strategies: experimenting with alternatives, alternatives, simultaneous projects, simultaneous projects, building building communitycommunity
risk-taking: avoiding safe ruts, risk-taking: avoiding safe ruts, inventing inventing options options
spirit: living your values spirit: living your values reflection and renewal: giving yourself reflection and renewal: giving yourself
“green” time“green” time
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Avoiding Career Derailers
Top 15 Derailers of Top 15 Derailers of Careers of Careers of
Leaders/ManagersLeaders/Managers • lack of emotional intelligence
• not reflecting on what drives you
• not producing results
• seeking job security
• unable to adapt to change
• failing to build an effective team
• lack of integrity/ethics
Emotional Intelligence (EQ)Emotional Intelligence (EQ)--To be aware of & understand my
own & other’s emotions--To use my awareness to effectively
manage myself in relationship
• In many performance areas, EQ matters TWICE as much as technical expertise or IQ
• The more complex the work, dependent on others to get the job done, and degree of stress, the more EQ matters
Career Derailers [cont.]Career Derailers [cont.]• Avoids risks, stays in comfort zone
• Isolated
• Arrogant/Defensive
• Betrays trust
• Overdepends on one boss or mentor
• Overdepends on a single skill
• Politically naive
• Ignores feedback
Keeping your Keeping your Aspirations AliveAspirations Alive::
Build your communityBuild your community Take risks: experiment with Take risks: experiment with
and invent options and invent options Live your values Live your values Set aside time for reflection Set aside time for reflection
and renewal [“green” time]and renewal [“green” time] Feed your creativityFeed your creativity
Career development is like long-distance
hiking:
Muscles: basic skills
Boots: self-efficacy
Map: advancement “how- tos”
Walking stick: supports
Trail guide: mentors
Pack: responsibilities
“She wins, you win”•Support each other!
•Address conflicts
•De-personalize negative politics
•Create a strong network of allies
•Build bridges to the next generation